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dogooder

dogooder is the alternative spelling of do-gooder.

Meaning of do-gooder

Noun

do-gooder (plural do-gooders)

  1. (derogatory) One who advocates a certain course of action, often of political or social concern, and often with the naive conviction of their own moral superiority.
    • Prohibition in the United States was an unsuccessful attempt by do-gooders to save people from the dangers of alcohol, whether they wanted to be saved or not.

Forms of dogooder

pluraldogooders

Questions about dogooder

What is dogooder the alternative spelling of?
Dogooder is the alternative spelling of do-gooder.

Words near dogooder in the dictionary

  1. Dogo Argentino
  2. dogoir
  3. dogoirs
  4. Dogon
  5. Dogons
  6. dogooder
  7. dogooders
  8. dogoodery
  9. dogophile
  10. dogophiles
  11. Dogos Argentinos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogooder (page history and authors); do-gooder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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